Created by DALL-E (Open AI)

I am a Tech Humanist & disturbed by OpenAI’s board that fired Sam Altman

The disconnect between regulators and technological progress

“In our fear-filled rush to regulate technology, we risk scripting the future with the ink of ignorance, forgetting that true progress requires understanding, not just intervention” — Author

Let me set the record straight before writing further: I’m neither a tech aficionado nor a modern-day Luddite. And yet, here I am, wrestling with a sense of disquiet, bordering on disturbance. It seems only fair to declare where my interests lie: my research dances precariously on the high wire stretched over the vast expanse of the technological realm, with a specific focus on computational rhetoric. This professional vantage point naturally tunes me into the pulse of AI developments and the broader narrative surrounding AI regulations. And it’s from this perspective that I’ve observed something deeply unsettling:

the Open AI board, a collective seemingly driven by a desire to carve their names into the legacy of tech regulation, appears to be navigating treacherous…